Bicycle support or rack



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H. S. FRAMBES. BICYCLE SUPPORT 0R RACK.

No. 592,086. Patented O0t.19,1897.

INVENTOR UNIT D STATES I PATENT" Orrron.

HENRY s. FRAMBES, OF EAST sAeINAw, MICHIGAN.

BICYC LE 3 U'PP'O RT 0R RACK.

' SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 592,086, dated October 19, 1897.

Application filed August 1 '7, 1 8 96.

T0 on whom it may concern: Be it known that I, HENRY S. FRAMBES, citizen of the United States, residing at East Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw and State of Michigan,'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle Supports or Racks; and 'I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to portable bicycle supports or stands which are designed to be folded up or taken apart .for transportation and which are constructed, preferably, of wood; and it consists of certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter described and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved support in an upright position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same in a folded condition. Fig. 3 is a central vertical transverse section through the same, and Fig. 4 is a central vertical longitudinal section of the support.

Ain the drawings represents my improved bicycle support or stand, which will be construoted, preferably, of wood, which is cheap and light, and which can be folded or taken apart for shipment, and readily set up again.

B B represent suitable base-supports which are formed with passages or eyes I) 1) near their ends and with passages b b centrally of their length. These base-supports are connected and braced by means of rods a a and spacing-blocks a, the said rods being reduced at their ends to form shoulders and to permit the reduced ends to pass into the passages 11 b, so that when the base-supports B B are pressed together onto the rods their inward movement would be limited and they will bear snugly with their inner faces against the shoulders formed on the rods.

Mortises or recesses are formed on the inner faces of the base-supports B B about centrally of their length and surrounding the passages b b to receive the vertical end standards 0 G, which prevent the standards from having any lateral movement and assist in bracing and strengthening the support or rack. The vertical end standards 0 G are each provided Serial No. (303}010. (No model.)

with passages 0 near their lower ends and with a passage 0' near their upper ends and with a vertical groove 0 at their extreme upper ends for purposes presently to be do scribed.

' D represents an iron rod formed with a right-hand screw-thread on its respective ends, and D represents a similar rod. The rod D is'passed through the passages 0 near the lower ends of the vertical end standards, and the rod D is passed through the passages 0 near the upper ends of the vertical end standards, so as to connect the same and form a means of tightening up the entire stand or rack by screwing up the nuts (1 d.

' E E represent short spacing-blocks which are provided with central longitudinal passages or eyes and are slipped onto the rods D D at the proper places for giving the required space or opening for the reception of the front wheel of a bicycle. F F represent large spacing-blocks which are also slipped onto the rods D D at the proper places to provide sufficient room between the vertical end spaces e e and. the central or intermediate spaces 6' e, hereinafter to be more fully described.

GG represent vertical spacing-bars which are formed at their upper and lower ends with passages g g slightly larger in diameter than the screw-threaded rods D D. These bars or slats are also slipped onto the rods D D at the proper places, as shown in the drawings, and are suitably spaced by means of the blocks E and F. The rods D D are considerably smaller in diameter than the spacing-blocks E and F,'and this is important as it requires only a small passage to be bored in the vertical bars or slats G, thus retaining their strength and at the same time permitting the ends of the spacing-blocks to bear with a comparatively large bearing-surface upon the sides of the Vertical bars G.

A panel H is inserted into the grooves c? at the upper ends of the vertical end standards O C, and is held in position therein by tightening up the nuts (1 d. This panel'will be found convenient for advertising purposes or for receiving any desired printed matter.

The operation of constructing or building up the rack or stand will be obvious from the aforegoing specification and from an inspec- LII tion of the drawings. After all the separable parts have been properly arranged in position, the nuts on the upper and lower rods are screwed up tight and the parts of the entire support or rack thereby firmly held together and a very firm and substantial device secured.

It will be observed that duplicate parts of the support or rack are similarly constructed, so that the parts can be easily replaced and the rack much more cheaply made and conveniently put together than if a large number of differently constructed pieces were employed.

Animportant feature of my invention is that when the rack is set up and it is desired to fold the same for shipment without dissembling all the parts it is simply necessary to loosen the nuts on one side of the support or rack and disengage the vertical end standards from the mortises or recesses in the basesupports and remove one of the rods a, when the vertical portion of the rack can be conconveniently turned down into a horizontal position, and the nuts again tightened up and the vertical portion held firmly in this horizontal position. By this construction and arrangement the freight and express will be greatly reduced in shipping, as the support or rack can be packed into a very convenient shape for transportation, and the expense for crating likewise reduced.

By forming the stand or rack with wide spaces between the series of openings for the reception of the front wheel of a bicycle, all liability of the pedals of the different bicycles interlocking or any way interfering with one another is avoided, and furthermore no bicycle can occupy more than its allotted space.

I regard this a very important feature of my invention. If these long spacing-blocks were not employed, and the spaces thereby formed were occupied by slats or bars, a bicyclist inserting his wheel into one of the center passages would interfere with another wheel being inserted into an adjoining space. By my construction and arrangement it would not be practicable to insert two wheels in the two adjoining spaces on the same side of the rack, the intention being for one wheel to be inserted 011 one side of the rack and another bicycle to be inserted in the adjoining space on the other side of the rack.

It will be observed that when the front wheel of a bicycle is inserted into one of the spaces of the rack or stand that the lower part of the wheel will occupy the space between the outer and the inner lower horizontal bars and that the outer bars would prevent the wheels slipping backward.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bicycle-support comprising a horizontal base portion formed of two side bars, two connecting end bars or rods, upper and lower central supporting and clamping cross bars or rods, the lower one of which connects the side bars and serves as a journal, and the upper one of which, when the stand is set up, being considerably above the base and parallel with the same, a plurality of sets of vertical slats forming groups, a series of staying, tubular spacing-blocks of different lengths arranged on the c1amping-rods or on the opposite sides of the slats, and placed so as to form passages between the slats of uniform size and passages of greater size between each pair of groups, each of the groups consisting of three upright parallel slats which form two passages for the reception of the wheels of two bicycles, and each pair of groups of slats forming a space of greater width than the openings between the slats of the respective groups for the wheels, so that two or more bicycles, after their wheels have been entered in the spaces between the slats of a group, are prevented from becominginterlocked with one another, screw-threads on the ends of the clamping-rods,and nuts applied on the clampiug-rods for drawing and holding the parts together, substantially as described.

2. A knockdown bicyele-rack comprising a base portion formed of two horizontal side bars, upper and lower supporting and clamping cross-rods, the lower one of which is removably connected to the side bars and serves as a journal for turning the central rack portion up or down, the upper one of which when the stand is set up bcin g considerably above the base and parallel thereto, vertically-arranged slats provided with eyes near their upper and lower ends, the clamping-rods being passed through said eyes, removable staying tubular spacing-blocks slipped on the clamping-rods between the slats for properly spacing said slats, screw-threads on the ends of the rods, and nuts applied on the clamping-rods for drawing or holding the parts together, the construction and arrangement being such that the parts can all be separated and the entire rack packed in a small space and be readily set up again, different parts of the rack being in duplicate and of the same construction,substantially as described.

.In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY S. FRAMBES.

Witnesses:

M. MORAE, M. L. FRAMBES. 

